I understand that they haven't really 'thrown' themselves into it and they tend to 'crack' as the heat builds.😄

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I love your mum's sewing kit, Lee! A clever, compelling, heartwarming poem. As a "mom" (California, USA), with 2 grown sons facing life's challenges, this poem made me smile. I imagine your mum was a special lady.

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A splendid poem on exploring an essential question: who am I?

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It helps me to contemplate definitions. Defining Ego as "sense of self," ego in this sense can contribute to purposeful writing. Defining Ego as "overinflated focus on one's own success at the expense of others," ego in this sense, can interfere w/ heartfelt writing. That's my 2 cents, guys.

Love the line: "But a poet with a heart that is open
Gets out of the way
And lets the truth speak."

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Bears - ever the cultured lot, the recently unhibernated have taken to ceramics - as a meditative exercise maybe!

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Thanks Manish re ' Almost but never quite '

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Thanks Naomi re ' Almost but never quite '

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Cheers Mr. Moncrieff re ' Almost but never quite '

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good point branwell

Comment is about A Poet With An Ego (blog)

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Thank you Helene, much appreciated.

David RL Moore

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… on “the rising” - Thanks Robert, 🌷there seems of late no room for any real optimism. Only flashbacks of an alternate 1917 universe. That’s not the type of historical era one would wish to repeat. 🙏🏻🕊 (rbk)

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Thanks Robert, 🌷there seems of late no room for any real optimism. Only flashbacks of an alternate 1917 universe. That’s not the type of historical era one would wish to repeat. 🙏🏻🕊

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Thank you so much, Robert and Stephen, I really appreciate your comments!

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Don't you need to have an ego to be a writer, otherwise why bother?

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Loved this a lot Ruth especially the ending. Thank you!

Warm regards

Tom

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Thanks gor likes: New Shoes &;Naomi. 👍

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Hi Robert,

Thanks for your comment, very much appreciate your reading and taking time. I'm not accepting your self deprecation though, everyone has something of value to offer...you certainly have.

Thanks Graham,

I appreciate your comment and have to agree, in some respect it has an element of the classical about it, although possibly a little rough around the edges. I've maybe been diving into Blake a little too much lately.

Incidentally, I watched "A Complete Unknown" last night and very much enjoyed it. I was a little disappointed the story didn't progress beyond his Newport Folk Festival performance, I guess his story is so vast it would have required a few more hours to tell.

David RL Moore

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Stuart,
I like your bio, especially about the Inside and Outside poems.
I've never heard that before and like it very much.

Marla

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Rez, So true, I can relate. Love the honest, heartfelt style in which this is written. Marla

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Thank you Naomi, Holden, Red.

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Spot on again, Rolph. One of the saddest aspects of all this is how Trump tries to make foreign leaders complicit in denigrating Joe Biden.
He has no dignity, no manners.

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Or maybe he'll get his deputy to do it for him, Holden! Very clever poem.

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Love a good, well-placed hyphen. Like the work, but I'm cynical about mankind recognising its fate, before its too late. Rob

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A lovely lyrical poem. To me, it felt like morning dawning, stealing the precious night from people who were to be separated forever. A sense of loss and sadness.

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I fear a forlorn wish for equality and recognition, as this world descends into tribal popularism. I admire your optimism.

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America has become a banana republic, full of yellow crooked Republicans too cowardly to confront a bully and the totally ineffective Democrats, too wet to be even considered snowflakes!

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Too good for my humble thought to spoil the page.

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Holden - I like the work, but who on this planet remains uninitiated ? We know him so well, but some people refuse to learn.

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'the impatient blade of morning
bleeds the starlight pale'

The poem has a somewhat classical feel to it, a lilt, a balance.

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Hi Flyntland,

There are some great rhyme couplings here, I particularly like the term "furrow-limps" it is cleverly discriptive, immediately putting an image in my mind.

It is a humbling tool to remember how small we are in the great scheme of things and how endless our universe truly is, puts us in perspective.

David RL Moore

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Don’t worry he didn’t fool anyone apart from the Republican leeches that cling to him!

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Thanks again Landi,

And thanks for the link.

I think this poem has sunk and is on its way to the coastal caves of hulls and skulls.

David RL Moore

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Thank you to Tom D. and Holden for reading my slightly odd little poem and for liking it. I have several of these fossils in my hearth, now cleaned and polished. They are a reminder of what 'newcomers' to the world we are.

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Thanks for likes: Holden, Red Brick Keshner & Julie. 👍

Comment is about White Rabbits 🐇 (blog)

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watched every morning on youtube-brilliant!

Travelling bird and squirrel feeder

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oi! watch out for that dangling lace granddad!

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Next stop? food banking centres with yummy barmcakes bread pies cakes fruit and veg!

regular trips every saturday as we have doing for the last twenty years-phewie tiger!

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I agree with John. This is honest, real and well written. Marla

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Good point about expressions of the subconscious--they are both in egress from us and in the reflections of the world as we see it. I'm sure there are many psychologists and philosophers who could phrase this concept more eloquently than I...

"The optimist sees a glass that’s half full. The pessimist sees a glass that’s half empty. An engineer sees a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be."

🌷

A lecture on individual differences in human behavior by Robert Sapolsky, 2002 winner of The Emperor Has No Clothes Award--
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4yZT7QoTyt3EY8zrE7e5ds?si=hTFCWq3XR-GAY9pfcLFQhg

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Thanks for the Likes, Tom, Holden and Flyntland.

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Spot on, Rolph, and all you other commentators. The biggest winner in the debate was rubbing his hands in glee thousands of miles away. On one count alone, though, Trump was right - Ukraine does have no cards to play.

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Brilliant Bran. Your best yet. Heart felt, honest, introspective, self-deprecating. As Stephen says, though, she didn’t get the bit about your poetry right.

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Thank you, Rolph. I couldn't believe my ears when I first heard this exchange (well, ambush really) on the radio. I thought it was a satirical comedy sketch.

But, shockingly, it turned out to be real. The thrust of your poem is confirmed by the gleeful messages of support for Trump from the likes of Putin and Orban.

One thing to ponder. Apart from all the other reasons (e.g. he's now their ally!), this sort of spectacle could never happen in a Trump-Putin meeting, because Putin would speak Russian through an interpreter, and so Trump and Vance could not 'get at him' directly.
Perhaps Zelensky should have stuck to using his own language and thereby frustrated these two sharks. Having worked in international organisations, I know what a disadvantage having to argue in a foreign language can be. None of which, of course, excuses anything.......

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At least the jibe about verse can't be true, Branwell! This is brilliantly written, and funny.

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Thanks for likes: Aisha & Rolph. 👍

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Thanks for your reading and comment Landi.

Having written this with my own personal idea of its meaning, I recognise now that it has multiple possible interpretations.

I am satisfied when this happens as it gives me an opportunity to delve into my own sub-consciense.

David RL Moore

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Definitely Putin's puppet is Trump hence the vile and vicious vocal display in order to let Putin have a very pleasing ringside seat!

Thank heaven Europe is standing firm and I having seen reports that the Russian people are on the rise against Putin am very much surprised that they done so before now-no doubt many live in fear fro that living demon!

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A disgustingly public humiliation of the heroic Ukraine President by a foul mouthed ex buddy of J Epstein he having dodged trial after money fiddling trials etc etc and by playing right into Putins hands could very well have been an crafty way of payback for that murdering war criminal bastard having been involved as before in U.S. elections but this time has possibly been behind getting Trump into the White House

to expect Zelensky to do his bidding or lose arms supplies-really? what about all the thousands of innocents on both sides especially those heroes of which so many died who had been forced to defend their country-how the bloody hell can they just be forgotten?

There was absolutely no need to treat Zelensky like that!
after all he speaks for his country not just for himself

and if the lack of U.S. military supplies comes about and Putin has a nice easier stroll into Europe then what will Trump do then I'd like to know?

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I’d give it two more Chat GPT releases Stephen, sadly - Chat GPT already does a passable Pam Ayres… we’re aaaaaaaaaaall doomed as Private Fraser would say!)

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Many thanks Hélène for your positive feedback. It is much appreciated. 🙂

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